Alaska Packraft School guides an overnight packraft trip through fabled Crow Pass, which includes 15 miles of hiking and 8 miles of rafting on Eagle River, for $600. A packrafter on the lake at ...

Map Shows Most Popular States for Fishing. ... Alaska – 117 points ... With over 12,000 rivers, 3 million lakes, and 6,640 miles of coastline, choosing where and what to fish can be a challenge.

A bill passed last Thursday by the Alaska House of Representatives would affirm a tough hurdle for top-level environmental protections on rivers and lakes in the state. House Bill 95, passed on a ...

Rivers and lakes typically have a pH value of 6.5 to 8, and acid rain has a pH value of 4.2 to 4.4. A stream tributary of the Akillik River in Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska turned orange ...

At MPR News, Dan Kraker reports, “The names of many lakes, rivers and cities across northern Minnesota have roots in the Ojibwe language — Bemidji, for example, is derived from the word ...

Rivers and streams in Alaska are changing color – from a clean, clear blue to a rusty orange – because of the toxic metals released by thawing permafrost, according to a new study.

With summer underway, Tri-Cities residents need to be vigilant for the toxic algae in the Columbia River that has been blamed for the death of 10 dogs in recent years. The Benton Franklin Health ...

In 1984, the lakes spanned about 50 square miles. By 2024, they covered 90 square miles—an area larger than New York's Seneca Lake, one of the Finger Lakes also carved by ancient glaciers.

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

A US-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit on Friday. ... (2.1 million kilometres) of rivers, from headwater to mouth.

Rivers and streams in Alaska are changing color – from a clean, clear blue to a rusty orange – because of the toxic metals released by thawing permafrost, according to a new study.

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...